Fete de la Dance

 

 

 Caribbean Dance Class rehearsing Saraka. 

November, 2014. Blackbox DCFA, UWI

 Fete de la Dance to welcome the holiday season

The Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA) Dance Unit will present Fete de la Dance on November 29 at 8 pm and Sunday 30 at 6 pm at the JFK Lecture Theatre, UWI, St Augustine.
Fete de la Dance aims to promote dance arts, create new opportunities for dance students to perform and provide new spaces for dancers and audiences to interact, a release from the organisers said.
Fete de la Dance will present a duet called Into Me Into You, choreographed by Roxanne De Souza and danced by graduates Ian Baptiste and Salome John. The love story between two young lovers recreates the dynamics of a tempestuous relationship expressed through connections and disconnections, ruptures and attachments. UWI’s Festival Dance Ensemble will surprise the audience with three new dances: Shadows Approach, a contemporary piece choreographed by Sally Crawford; The Festive Occasion of Dhassara, an Indian piece choreographed by Deboleena Paul; and Fire and Water, a fusion piece choreographed by both Instructors. Crawford has also choreographed the solo piece Simple Kind of Man, danced by Dance Degree student Zari Kerr, winner of the Felix Harrington Prize, while Paul has choreographed the duet Saraswati Vandana, interpreted by dance students Anya Reyes and Danielle Balroop.
Dance student Lee-Anna Boyce will share with Fete de la Dance’s audience her talented secondary school dance students Kenson Laudat and Shanika Blackman, both winners in the Sanfest Festival. The two solo pieces choreographed by Boyce are: The Tribute, a piece dedicated to the victims and survivors of cancer, and Motherless Child, a piece that expresses the difficulty of growing up with an authoritarian father as the only parent in the household.
Tobago’s folk dances will be represented by the piece Temne Fusion, a colourful expose of Tobagonian culture choreographed by dance degree student Jillian Franklyn and interpreted by dancers Keisha Davidson, Lizelle Taylor, Christelle London and Kimmie Potts.
Broken, a piece choreographed by lecturer and dance coordinator Jorge Luis Morejón in collaboration with Zari Kerr and dance degree student Candice Brathwaite, references an important parable from the bible. The archaic story interpreted by the duet reveals universal themes of humility, opulence, greed, grief and godliness in an attempt to connect the dance experience with a lost sense of the sacred.
The Caribbean dance degree class will also present an African Nation dance Saraka, (A Thanksgiving). The vibrant piece is choreographed by degree student and instructor Mindy Giles, winner of the Humanities Faculty Award.

 Link: http://www.guardian.co.tt/entertainment/2014-11-22/fete-de-la-dance-welcome-holiday-season